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The benefit of breaking up Big Tech is unclear, top Australian competition official says

By Laurel Henning, Khushita Vasant and Ana Paula Candil
  • 04 Mar 2021 19:04
  • 21 May 2021 03:51
Digital platforms including Google and Facebook are unlikely to be targeted by calls from Australian regulators for them be broken up, with the country’s top competition official saying this week that the benefits of company breakups remain unclear.
Speaking at an online international competition conference*, Rod Sims said that his

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Ana Paula Candil

Senior Correspondent, Latin America


Ana Paula joined MLex in Brazil in 2014 writing about antitrust investigations and merger reviews. Prior to that, she worked for several trade publications and in TV. She lived in Washington DC, where she worked for Al Jazeera English in 2010. She studied journalism and holds a postgraduate diploma in International Business Management from the George Brown College in Toronto and a Master of Business Administration diploma in government relations from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).

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